Palazzolo uses recognizable imagery in an abstract context, placing no more or less importance on any one object. Rather, the subject of his work is painting itself, and the ways in which the works evoke notions of memory, dreams and desires.

An extremely deft painter, Palazzolo almost obsessively reworks a collection of images, some from everyday objects such as fruit, Polaroids or body parts, and others from paintings including "The Daughters of Edward D. Boit" by John Singer Sargent. He integrates these elements into the composition along with an abstract vocabulary, at times obscuring the object with a stroke of the brush or a grid of dots. He manipulates the paint in a trompe l'eoil manner, fooling the eye to see a Polaroid which one believes to be taped to the picture, but in fact is painted on, teasing the viewer into believing a visible reminder, triggering familiar thoughts.

Since earning degrees in Fine Arts from Tufts and the Boston Museum School, Palazzolo has exhibited extensively with recent shows in London, New York and Boston. Originally from Connecticut, Palazzolo divides his time between New York, Houston and Maine. Palazzolo has been exhibiting with the gallery since 1994.

1945

Born, Torrington, Connecticut
Lives and works in Maine and Texas.

1965-69

Boston Museum School

1966-68

Tufts University Museum School Program

1969-70

Boston Museum School, Independant Graduate Study

2000

Robert Bowman, London

1999

Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Miller Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes

1998

bel Simeonov (Rebecca Ibel Gallery), Columbus, Ohio

1997

Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1995

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California

1994

Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1993

Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts New Orleans, Louisiana

1992

Thomas Babeor Gallery La Jolla, California
Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1991

Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

1990

Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1988

The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes

1986

Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York

1985

Houston, Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries 1984
Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York

1983

Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, Texas

1980

D. Clayton and Company, Houston, Texas

1978

Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes

1975

Harcus Krakow Rosen Sonnabend Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes

2001

•'Reflection,' curated by Rebecca Ibel and Carl Palazzolo, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
•'Drawing Rooms,' Lennon Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York

1997

'The Eccentric Image,' Icon Gallery, Brunswick, Maine

1995

Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1994

•'Oeuvres Choisis,' Allez les Filles/Ibel Simeonov, Columbus, Ohio
New York, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery Artists. January 8-29
•'Truth Be Told: It's All About Love,' Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York
•'Novices Collect: Selections from the Sam and May Gruber Collection,' The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire (catalogue)

1993

'Works on Paper by Gallery Artists ,' Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1992

•'Painting, Self Evident: Abstraction 1992,' Charleston, The William Halsey Gallery, South Carolina, (organizer), Gibbes Museum of Art, City of Charleston
•'Maine Coast Artists ,' Rockport, Maine
•'On The Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting,' July 30-December 31,
traveled to Portland, Maine, The Portland Museum of Art, February 19-April 18. (catalogue)

1991

'Spring/Summer Exhibition, Part One: Painters,' Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1990

•'A Group Exhibition ,' Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

• 'The Invitational ,' Maine Coast Artists Gallery, Rockport, Maine Lennon, Weinberg, New York, New York

1987

'Six Painters: Cohen, Goldberg, Mitchell, Mueller, Palazzolo, Porter,' Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York

1986

•'The Eye Ear Hand: Poems and other Works by Paul Heroux, Carl Palazzolo and Paul Schmidt,' The Harcus Gallery, Boston, Massachusettes
•'About Place: Contemporary American Landscape,' P.S. 1 The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., Long Island City, New York (catalogue)
•'Gold,'American Express Company, curated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1985

•'School of the Museum Fine Arts Alumni: Present and Future,' Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusettes
•'North Meets South ,' College of Charlston, William Halsey Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina
•'Three Painters: Stephen Mueller, Ross Bleckner, Carl Palazzolo,' School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusettes

1984

'Arabesque: Grand Gestures in Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts,' Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York

1983

Paintings and Drawings ,'Bette Stoler Gallery, New York, New York

1982

Max Protech Gallery, New York, New York

1981

•'Robin Bruch and Carl Palazzolo,' Museum of Visual Arts, New York, New York
•Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey (traveling drawing exhibition)

1980

American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Fryer-Kohles, Jeanne. 'Sensuous Works Prove Looks Can Be Deceiving,' The Columbus Dispatch, December, 2002

Exhibition Catalogues

Carl Palazzolo. Introduction by J.W. Weinberg and B. Lennon. New York: Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 1990.
On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting 1952-1992. Text by Theodore F. Wolff. Rockport, ME: Maine Coast Artists, 1992.
About Place: Contemporary American Landscape, text by Edward G. Leffingwell. Long Island City, NY: P.S. 1 The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., 1986.
The Boston Band, Parker Street 470, 1970.

Periodicals

Starker, Melissa. 'Here's looking at you,' Columbus Alive, May 10, 2001, p. 12.
Hall, Jacqueline. "Lollapalooza Palazzolo," The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, November 14, 1999, p. 7I.
Trebay, Guy. "Low Country, High Style," House and Garden, August1998, p. 104 - 111.
Hall, Jacqueline. The Columbus Dispatch, November 13, 1994.
Melrod, George. Art & Antiques, November 1994.
Pincus, Robert L. "Visual Arts: Critics Choice," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 12, 1993, p.20.
Saville, Jonathan. "Hovering at the Edge of Meaning." San Diego's Weekly Reader, February 20, 1992, pp.51-52.
"About Town: Art," The New Yorker, June 4, 1990.
Adams, Brooks. "Carl Palazzolo at Lennon, Weinberg," Art in America, November 1990.
Beem, Edgar Allen. "The Friends of Katherine Porter," The Maine Times, July 1990.
Bonetti, David. "Review," The Boston Phoenix, April 15, 1986, p. 15.
Green, Roger. "Paintings Packed with Feeling," Times-Picayune (NewOrleans), October 25, 1991.
MacCash, Douglas. "Abstraction: Carl Palazzolo & Gregory Amenoff," The New Orleans Art Review, November/December 1991, pp.29-31.
Isaacson, Philip. "Arts & Books: Invitational is an Excellent Show." Maine Sunday Telegram, July 15, 1990, p. 5E.
Leibmann, Lisa. "Stephen Mueller," nterview, October 1990, p.145.
Muse, Vance. "Maine Attraction," House and Garden, July 1990, p. 71.
Schmidt, Paul. "Carl Palazzolo," Arts Magazine, May 1986, p.110.
Stapen, Nancy. "Two Artists and a Poet Collaborate in an Exquisite Show," The Boston Herald, April 13, 1986, p. 2.
Brenson, Micheal. "Gallery View: The Landscape Maintains Its Hold on American Artists," The New York Times, March 19, 1986, p. 33.
Brenson, Micheal. "Carl Palazzolo." The New York Times, May 23, 1986, p. C24.
Kalil, Susie. "Reviews: Houston Art Wave," Artweek, August 2, 1980, p.145.
Tatransky, Valentine. "Reviews," Arts Magazine, October 1979, p.23.
Yokowitz, Robert. "Reviews: Group Show, "Arts Magazine, December 1979.
Cotter, Holland. "Reviews." The New York Arts Jounal, no. 12, Nov/ Dec 1978.
Faxon, Alicia. "Harcus Gallery/ Boston, Recent Paintings by Carl Palazzolo: The Sisters," Art New England, July/August 1977, p. 34.
"Art and Emotion," The Boston Phoenix, December 8, 1975, p. 19
"Of the Earth," Architectural Digest, November 1974, p. 141
Baker, Kenneth. "Attitudes Toward Abstraction," The Boston Phoenix, July 3, 1973, p. 14.
Belz, Carl. "The Boston Bank, Reviews," Artforum, September 1970.